Short squeeze is starting in shares of PFG at $69.695, after crossing above the $69.575 Trigger Price

In the past 20 years (since 2005 with the introduction of RegSho), short selling has come under scrutiny as millions of retail investors have discovered what we have been highlighting since early 2005. Market makers abuse the “market maker’s exemption” and short excessive amounts of shares in your stock without locating, borrowing, paying the rebate or the interest rate to borrow. They are required to cover on the same trading day, and our data proves they do not.

The chart below shows “Daily Short Volume” in Principal Financial Group, Inc. (PFG), and includes both EXEMPT (market makers) and NON-EXEMPT (everyone else) short sales. We consolidate the tape of all 14 US stock exchanges and purchase the “sell short” trade identifier data directly from the exchanges on a daily basis. This complete view of the trading in your stock shows a vastly different picture than “Total Short Interest”, which only includes non-exempt short sales that have not been covered by the twice per month reporting date. Unfortunately, this misses the majority of the short selling.

This indicates that a Short Squeeze may be starting in shares of Principal Financial Group, Inc. at $69.695, after crossing above the $69.575 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

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Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

Date	Short Volume	Total Volume	Percentage	Squeeze Trigger	$ Value
2025-04-08	861,709	2,323,424	37.09	71.3	61,439,852
2025-04-07	1,247,642	2,713,149	45.99	71.63	89,368,596
2025-04-04	979,356	2,212,057	44.27	73.38	71,865,143
2025-04-03	628,178	1,409,994	44.55	80.1	50,317,058
2025-04-02	453,794	1,024,445	44.3	85.91	38,985,443
2025-04-01	461,761	1,023,216	45.13	84.95	39,226,597
2025-03-31	510,782	1,144,864	44.62	84.11	42,961,874
2025-03-28	568,641	1,355,254	41.96	83.33	47,384,855
2025-03-27	314,743	701,952	44.84	85.17	26,806,661
2025-03-26	417,576	1,018,206	41.01	85.77	35,815,494
2025-03-25	383,686	1,106,606	34.67	85.8	32,920,259
2025-03-24	313,843	801,393	39.16	85.11	26,711,178
2025-03-21	831,141	2,517,483	33.01	83.25	69,192,488
2025-03-20	435,123	952,779	45.67	84.22	36,646,059
2025-03-19	401,885	1,073,434	37.44	84.22	33,846,755
2025-03-18	366,235	974,671	37.58	83.45	30,562,311
2025-03-17	369,652	1,139,095	32.45	83.74	30,954,658
2025-03-14	403,321	879,965	45.83	82.5	33,273,983
2025-03-13	569,505	1,255,397	45.36	80.99	46,124,210
2025-03-12	907,838	1,829,930	49.61	81.92	74,370,089
2025-03-11	803,167	1,850,181	43.41	83.03	66,686,956
2025-03-10	880,380	1,833,342	48.02	84	73,951,920
2025-03-07	847,247	1,656,163	51.16	85.3	72,270,169
2025-03-06	978,469	1,922,847	50.89	86.6	84,735,415
2025-03-05	724,339	1,453,542	49.83	86.57	62,706,027
2025-03-04	1,312,187	2,698,711	48.62	85.83	112,625,010
2025-03-03	860,981	1,866,717	46.12	89.05	76,670,358
2025-02-28	728,836	2,142,429	34.02	88.75	64,684,195
2025-02-27	563,355	1,364,311	41.29	87.46	49,271,028
2025-02-26	454,483	1,290,923	35.21	86	39,085,538
2025-02-25	314,689	900,310	34.95	85.36	26,861,853
2025-02-24	353,442	1,139,940	31.01	85.16	30,099,121
2025-02-21	566,668	1,853,567	30.57	84.72	48,008,113
2025-02-20	652,598	2,078,530	31.4	86.39	56,377,941
2025-02-19	541,906	1,123,035	48.25	86.16	46,690,621
2025-02-18	362,122	1,155,091	31.35	86.25	31,233,023
2025-02-14	686,214	1,668,256	41.13	86.09	59,076,163

Total	669,372,561	1,744,246,093	38.38	69.62	46,602,801,851

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of PFG at $69.695, after crossing above the $69.575 Trigger Price